Captain Fogarty: A Short Story

To satisfy my curiosity and gain a broad understanding of athletic training, I chose to interview my boss, Pete Stevens. Pete is employed by Physiotherapy Associates, a nationwide corporation that specializes in physical/occupational therapy, athletic training, and fitness/sports training. He has worked there for three years. He is currently the Head

It’s Monday, August 22, 2016. The time is 4:00 a.m. The first of five alarms began to sound in my ear. Snooze. Second alarm sounds. Snooze. The snooze button is my friend until I realize I cannot afford to sleep another minute. I grudgingly get out of bed and start my morning routine. The time is 4:30 a.m. I get into my car and drive through the pitch-black morning. I arrive to the Michael S. Starnes Athletic Training Center at 4:45 am. My semester long internship begins. For the 2016 Fall semester, I had the opportunity to do a volunteer practicum through the Ole Miss Strength and Conditioning department under some of the best strength and conditioning coaches. This event, rather experience, was an eye opener into the real world.

“By the look of things, Captain Everett Donovan, 1st Marine Division, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, was lucky to be alive” (13). Donovan has many conflicts by this point, but his biggest one is the fact that he is the only surviving member of his regiment, and is stranded in the North Korean tundra fighting for his life. He faces extreme cold as well as not knowing what day it is, no definite way to get help, and being shot and captured by a North Korean sniper as part of his troublesome journey through the tundra.

I had the amazing privilege to observe Erin Herrmann, who is the head athletic trainer at Putnam City North High School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The reason why she was chosen for my observation hour was because she has the job that I am yearning to obtain after I earn my master’s degree in athletic training. This occupation is completely relevant to exercise physiology because athletic trainers have the opportunity to help injured athletes to recover by creating, facilitating, and assisting athletes with their rehabilitation assignments.

This chapter explains the details of the start of Louie Zamperini’s distance running career. It started when he found out that his house key worked for the back door of Torrance High School’s gym. Eventually he was found out and dragged off to the principal’s, where he was banned from joining any extracurricular activities. When Louie’s brother, Pete heard this, he went to the principal, dragging their mother along for authority, to protest this decision. Finally, the school allowed Louie to join sports in 1932. After that, Pete began pressuring Louie to put his time an energy into something less ‘illegal’ than stealing, like running. Even though he looked like the only boy in his class that could run, Louie was weakened from his round

Ever since i’d moved to John McCrae Senior Public School in grade 5 it had been my dream to compete in the 100 meter sprint at Birchmount Stadium. So when the opportunity to qualify to go to Birchmount was approaching I didn’t leave it up to fate. I trained for a week to make sure that I was ready for the tryout.

It was a short drive over to the parking lot outside of building 7518. The two-story khaki- colored building resembled the barracks at the Security Police School at Lackland. The building itself provided a sense of familiarity, which helped ease some of my anxiety and uncertainty. Sgt. Billingsly escorted me into the Dorm Managers office where I presented my military orders to Staff Sargent Kingsley, the manager in charge of maintaining order in the barracks. He was also charged with ensuring that the rules were followed with regards to maintenance and visitors. He had dark brown hair, and by the looks of him, he spent hours in the gym lifting. He offered a friendly welcome and asked if the PI was my first duty station. I said, “Sir,

Jumpstart Academy is a program designed to keep children active and healthy, while providing them with the necessary fundamental movement skills needed to excel in sports and games. I was delighted with my involvement in this program as it was very much exciting and exhilarating to see the younger generation evolve as not only athletes but also as members of the community. My goal within the program was to provide the youth with opportunities to achieve success through physical literacy. On a weekly basis, we would start off the day with a warmup activity to ensure the body and mind is prepared for the upcoming exercises. Each week was divergent from the previous one as there was a new fundamental skill to focus on. For example, week 2 would

Mr. D. has coached at Wabasso for numerous years and has left a lasting impression on all of his runners. Mr. Dudgeon’s main priorities throughout all his years of coaching are to expand and improve his teams and, most importantly, to make sure everyone has fun. For instance, he puts unfathomable amounts of care and time into meticulously designing the perfect workout for each day of practice; he even does the workouts himself before he has our team run them. Furthermore, Mr. Dudgeon always makes sure that we feel prepared for the upcoming meets, and most importantly, he makes sure we are ready to “destroy the competition,” as he says. His infectious love for running, drive for success, and through-the-roof level of care for his athletes helps him build larger and more successful teams every year. To be specific, Mr. D. started with a cross country team composed of five girls and built it up to up to a conference-champion team of 10+ runners in a matter of only three years. The product of Mr. Dudgeon’s labor was a shiny cross country coach of the year plaque. Similarly, in a mere one year's

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Each night I was hitting my bunk before 9 PM in earlier if possible to get as much sleep as I could for the next day and to conserve my strength. Each morning as we marched chow hall people were getting wise to that ploy and eating the bare minimum otherwise it will be coming up the same way went down soon. Day after day the June heat of Georgia got hotter and our number got smaller so much so you could hear the bodies slapping the pavement as we ran around the towers singing cadence. The whoop, whoop of the choppers flying in to dust another off from heat exhaustion became more prevalent as the week wore on. By the end of the first week are number was less than half what we started with and now the tower part of the training was to begin. This was conducted in mockups of aircraft and 34 foot tower. Now 34 feet doesn’t seem to be that high but as you are standing on a small platform in a parachute harness with rigging above your head out to a pulley arranged on a steel cable it looks far. The object was to exit the mockup doorway feet and knees together chin down arms tight to your side holding a fake reserve chute and fall about 10 feet give or take till slacken the line jerked you straight up. At that moment it was a thrill ride 300 feet down the cable, they call it a zip line today, into a berm of dirt for a hard landing. A black hat instructor was sitting at the bottom of the tower grading you on your exit from the mockup and how you recovered for the wild ride down the cable. This was done all day long at a full on run back from the berm of dirt into line then double time to the top of the tower to start all over again. Other training devices were harnesses that you would swing off of a six-foot high step and swing out over a sawdust pit back and forth until the black cat decided to let go of the

After a series of announcements about cardiac screenings and where to buy gym clothes, the Instructional Coordinator finally projected the three offerings for the students not signed up for one of the new specialized P.E. courses.The first choice was out immediately because there was no way I would pay to golf off-campus. One of the two remaining choices looked identical to a girls-only course I had taken my junior year, although this year all P.E. classes were officially coed. The group fitness unit offered would be less torturous than rotating between the cardio room and the weight room that catered to football players and wrestlers, not petite out-of-shape non-athletes, but I’d have to repeat hip-hop dance.

The Ordinary World: Ender is the protagonist of this story and Colonel Graff is his aid in the journey to the battle school. Enders ordinary world is an unhappy world, often defined as a “mundane world” he is what they call a “third”. A “third” isn’t as important in the family as the first two are. Ender will have to leave all of his family behind, the one person he has grown so close to, Valentina, they are inseparable. Ender will soon be going to a place he was invited to which is battle school, Colonel Graff will be his guidance to this one very unknown place to Ender. Colonel Graff who really cares about Ender will isolate him so he can do his very best and is able to reach his full potential.

We hit the weights hard and heavy. Mr. Vietto complimented me for only being 157 pounds and having the ability to bench press 215 pounds. Mr. Vietto slowly became even more impressed with my work ethic. When I would struggle with a certain amount of weight he would give a look. A look that made me push even harder and extend to a new level of fitness. After our workout he wanted me to sign up for Detroit’s annual weightlifting competition. He even offered to be my trainer and my medical trainer. It was an offer I could not resist, so I took

As I walked out of my car it already turned very dark out, the sun was gone, and the stars began to show their colors in the sky. I felt the winter breeze run through my body as I walked to the door. All the other rooms were dark around the entrance accept the main door. Inside you see yellow and black themed table cloths and balloons set up as decorations. The excitement began to grow more inside of me as I got closer to going into the gym. Although right after my excitement slowly began to decrease as time went by. Students continued to enter, first started with groups of five, then four, then